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TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) – Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that Iraqi Kurdistan has three days to hand over control of the international airports to Baghdad in order to avoid an embargo, local media reported.

TEHRAN, Sep. 26 (MNA) – Iran commercial attaché in Baghdad, Naser Behzad, stated that value of Iran’s exports to Iraq had stood at over three billion dollars in the first six months of the current Iranian year (began March 21).

TEHRAN, Sep. 25 (MNA) – Turkey and Iraq will launch a joint military exercise on the Turkish-Iraqi border on Tuesday following a controversial referendum in northern Iraq, according to the Turkish military late Monday.

Rouhani:

TEHRAN, Sep. 25 (MNA) – President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed Tehran’s opposition to any move against the Iraqi territorial integrity and national unity legitimacy of all parties lies within Iraq’s Constitution.

TEHRAN, Sep. 24 (MNA) – Iran has blocked airspace for all flights from and to Iraqi Kurdistan region as KRG plans to hold an independence referendum on Mon., Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) announced today.

TEHRAN, Sep. 24 (MNA) – Professor Farhang Jahanpour, Member of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford says “despite the strong affection and admiration that I feel towards the long-suffering Kurds, I believe that the plan to hold a referendum for independence in Iraq is wrong and potentially very dangerous.”

By: Seyed Mahdi Nabavi

TEHRAN, Sep. 23 (MNA) – Perhaps hundred years ago, when British Mark Sykes and French François Georges-Picot were plotting the interests of the region on the Middle East map, it was unthinkable that such an artificial division and nation-state, regardless of their specific ethnic, religious and … characteristics, would have cause the region to be the focus of ethnic, religious, land and border disputes over the years, IIWFS reported.

TEHRAN, Sep. 22 (MNA) – The UN Security Council on Thursday warned that a referendum on independence by Iraq's Kurdistan region was potentially destabilizing, adding its weight to international opposition to the vote.

TEHRAN, Sep. 21 (MNA) – A professor of political science at Georgetown University says Masoud wants to realize his father, Mulla Mustafa Barzani's, dream of an independent Kurdish state, but this will not be easy and in all likelihood and would lead to a region -wide conflict which could last for many years.

Shamkhani:

TEHRAN, Sep. 17 (MNA) – Iran’s security chief Ali Shamkhani said Sun. all military agreements with semi-autonomous Kurdistan region will be terminated if the region goes ahead with the decision to split from Baghdad.